Montgomery College

HUMA 1302 --  Humanities II:  The Renaissance to the Present

Fall 2006

Instructor:                 Dr. Adele Yung          Office Phone:  936.273.7301, x65767

Credit Hours:           3                                  Office Hours:  TTH  before and after class

e-mail:                        ayung@nhmccd.edu               

Classroom:              F203                           Class Day & Hours: TTH 10:00 – 11:20 a.m.

Required Text:        Fiero, Gloria K.  The Humanistic Tradition, Fifth Edition. Volumes 3,4,5,& 6. Boston:  McGraw Hill, 2006.

Course Description : An interdisciplinary, multi-perspective assessment of cultural, political, philosophical, and aesthetic factors critical to the formulation of values and the historical development of the individual and society.  HUMA 1302 will focus on the time period Early Renaissance to the Present.

Course Goals:

1.  To enhance students' appreciation of humankind’s cultural legacies.

2.  To improve skill in analysis through creative application of basic concepts.

3.  To perceive the function of primary sources [works original to the age and culture that produced them.

4.      To develop skills in responding actively to creative works through oral and written communication skills, including class discussions, small group exercises, and  developed presentations (written and oral).

5.      To view works of art in historical, philosophical, cultural, societal, and global contexts.

Learning Objectives:

Develop aesthetic responsiveness through involvement with the visual, literary, and philosophical forms of arts and creative artifacts.

a.       Explain how historical, geographical, and formal factors shape our responses to works of architecture, art, literature, drama, music, and poetry.

b.      Connect humankind’s cultural legacy and our own responses to architecture, art, literature, drama, music, and poetry within broader contexts.

c.      Explain specific works or artifacts based on research, knowledge, and experience.

Attendance Policy:  Regular attendance is expected; penalties will be incurred after a certain number of absences.  After the third missed class, the student will be dropped.  The Student is responsible for announcements and work missed.

Academic Dishonesty:  Academic dishonesty is defined as any attempt by a student to misrepresent academic work. We will be using Turnitin.com for paper submissions.

Plagiarism:  Plagiarism will result in an automatic F.  All references, quotations, citations, and borrowed ideas are to be cited in proper format.  All help from other sources, including typing, word processing, and proof-reading of papers by another person, MUST be acknowledged within the paper, by name.  Plagiarized material is not accepted in any form by this instructor or by this college.

Grading:

            First paper (2-3 pages)                                10 %               (100 points)

            Book exams @ 10% each                           30 %               (200 points)

            Second paper (2-3 pages)                          10 %               (100 points)

            Oral presentation of research project           5 %               (100 points)

            Museum/Research project                           20 %               (200 points)

            Final exam                                                     15 %               (150 points)

            Class discussion/in-class activities              5 %               (100 points)

            Improvement through use of vocabulary

             and understanding of concepts                    5 %               (   50 points)

            Total                                                                100 %             (1000 points)

            90 - 100 = A; 80 - 89 = B; 70 - 79 = C; 60 - 69 = D; 59 and below = F

Papers

General Guidelines: **

1.  Develop the thesis statement as the focus of the paper.

2.      Explain and analyze with specific examples and support.  (How does the use of chiaroscuro enhance or detract from meaning in Illustrations?

3.      Utilize arguments and evidence in a well-organized, coherent development of thesis.

4.      Use turnitin.com for paper and research submission.

Format:

1.  Typed or word processed, double-spaced, with margins of one inch on all sides.

2.  Name, course number, and date on upper left or upper right hand corner.

3.  Spell checked and proofed for grammatical errors, contractions, trite expressions.

Citations and References:

1.      Cite your source if you use another's idea, refer to a specific point, or use a

quotation.

2.  Include author and page number(s).

5.      Quotations longer than four typed lines should be set off by indenting each line ten

spaces from the left margin.  Do not use quotation marks if indenting.  Be sure to cite author's name and page number(s).  Explain the quotation's relevance to your argument/thesis.

4.  Include a "Works Cited" page at the end of your paper.

Examples of Works Cited Format

Fine, Elsa H.  Women and Art:  A History of Women Painters and Sculptors from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century.  Montclair, N.J.:  Allanheld & Schram, 14 October 2002. Chicago Art Institute.  4 December 2003.  31 January 2004 <http://www.cai.org>

Frayling, Christopher, Helen Frayling, and Ron van der Meer.  "The Art Pack."  An Art History of Our Times 56 (2001): 74-89.  EBSCO   AP5596231. 24 February 2004 <http://ohiolink.edu>

First Paper:  Choose one option from choices presented, utilizing the textbook, The Humanistic Tradition.  Refer to the  elements of the work itself to support your thesis statement concerning the work or document.  Explain some aspect of the work and analyze specific elements.  No research is required.  Be sure to include a page number for the work in the textbook.

Second Paper:  Compare and contrast two works that are linked by some larger theme, message, statement, cultural significance.  Be specific in the aspects you choose to analyze, explaining support of your these by specific references to vocabulary, context, and concepts studied in class.

            Be sure to integrate your comparison-contrast in an organized manner rather than discussing all about one work, then all about another.  Provide transitions grouped around major points and subpoints in the paper and presentation.

Museum /Research Project and Oral Presentation:  Choose one or two works researched or read or viewed.  Be specific in defining the scope of your thesis; then research, using at least three to four sources beyond the works and text within the course itself.  Biographies, art texts, journals, related sources, and citations are encouraged.

Museum/Research Project

1.  Choose one or two works with some significant similarities as well as differences. (subject matter, time period, creator, theme, region, culture,  ethnicity, expression, movement)

2.  Take notes on the following visual characteristics of both of the works you choose, if they apply.  Write down as many of your direct observations of the works as possible.

Form & Content

materials                                               line (actual or implied)                space (organization, dimension)

shape/mass                                          light (actual or illusion of)            subject matter

color/color scheme                                 texture (actual or visual)              point of view, theme, allegory?

elapsed time (if relevant)             pattern (if any)                           symbolism

motion (actual or the illusion of)               unity/variety                               plot complication

balance                                                 emphasis/focal point                  genre, period material?

scale                                                    proportion                                  subject matter

rhythm                                                  pattern (if any)                           statements made or implied?

Tentative Schedule *

Aug. 29, 31    Book 3:  European Renaissance, Reformation, Global Encounter

Introduction:  The Age of the Renaissance                        Chapter 15, 1-22

                         Adversity and Challenge:  The Fourteenth Century          Book 3

 Transition:  Boccaccio and Chaucer

Sep. 5, 7        Classical Humanism:  Petrarch, Pico, Renaissance        Chapter 16, 23-43

                        Women; Machiavelli                                                 Book 3

                        Suggestions for the First Paper

Sep. 12,14     Renaissance Artists:  Disciples of Nature, Masters         Chapter 17, 44-81

             of Invention:  DaVinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, etc.         Book 3

Sep. 19,21     Africa, the Americas, Cross-Cultural Encounters  Chapter 18, 83-120

                        West Africa; Mayan, Inkan, Aztec, Native American         Book 3

Cultures. Rough Draft of First Paper Due; Peer Evaluation

Sep. 26,28     Protest and Reform:  The Waning of the Old Order          Chapter19,121-42  First Paper Due

Oct. 3,5           Protest and Reform:  The Waning of the Old Order          Chapter 19, cont’d.

                        Luther, Erasmus, More, Cervantes, Othello                      Book 3

                        Book 3 Exam

Oct. 10,12      Book 4:  Faith, Reason, Power in the Early Modern World

The Age of the Baroque:  Catholic Reformation               Chapter 20, 1-24

                        Absolute Power and the Aristocratic Style             Chapter 21, 25-59

                        Suggested Topics Second Paper                                 Book 4

Oct. 17,19      The Baroque in the Protestant North                                  Chapter 22, 60-74

                        The Scientific Revolution and the New Learning   Chapter 23, 75-93

Oct. 24, 26     The Baroque (cont’d)           

                        The Age of Reason:  Locke, Smith, Diderot, Pope          Chapter 24, 95-113

                        Second Paper Due

Oct. 31            The Limits of Reason, Satire, Swift, Voltaire                     Chapter 25, 114-38

Nov. 2             Eighteenth-Century Art, Music, Society                              Chapter 26, 139-66

Nov. 7, 9         Book 4 Exam; Introduction to Book 5: Romanticism, Realism                                         The Romantic Era:  Nature, Wordsworth, Shen Fu       Chapter 27, 1-28

Heroes:  Napoleon,   Frankenstein, Byron, Pushkin,        Chapter 28, 29-49

Douglass, Truth, Goethe                                                      Book 5

                        Last Day to Withdraw from Classes:  Friday, November 10

Nov. 14,16     The Romantic Style in Art and Music                                  Chapter 29, 50-69

Realism and the Modernist Turn:  Industry, Empire           Chapter 30, 71-108

Rough Draft of Museum/Research Project;  Peer Evaluation

                        The Move Toward Modernism:  Nietzsche, Mallarmé       Chapter 31, 110-39

                        Debussy, Impressionism, Rodin, Van Gogh, Cézanne

Nov. 21           Book 5 Exam; Introduction to Book 6:  Modernism, Globalism

Nov. 28,30     The Triumph of Modernism:  The Modernist Assault        Chapter 32, 1-25

                        The Freudian Revolution:  Proust, Kafka, Klee,     Dali     Chapter 33, 26-48

                        Museum/Research Project Due

Dec. 5             Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Arts                             Chapter 34, 49-68

                        The Quest for Meaning; The Postmodern Turn                  Chapter 35, 69-89

                        Liberation and Equality                                                        Chapter 36, 93-119

Dec. 7             The Information Age:  Message and Meaning                   Chapter 37, 120-40

                        Image and Sound in the Information Age               Chapter 38, 140-68

Final Test – Thursday, December 14:  12:30 – 1:59 p.m.  (Required)

·        Optional further enrichment opportunities will be announced, including a possible meeting at the Museum of Fine Arts--Houston.  Information for the Museum/Research Project may be gathered at these times or on the student's own time to complete the project.

Notes:

Civility in the College and University Classroom

May I take a moment to welcome you all to our “success in learning” together.

Promptness:

With back-to-back classes, I may come in breathless and hurried, but I will settle down—I promise!  If you have to be late, come in quietly and see me later as I always take attendance and may mark you as absent.

Electronic Devices:

Take a moment to turn off all electronic devices prior to entering the classroom.  Please don’t leave and re-enter the classroom.  If you miss a class meeting, you are responsible for all material covered, announcements made in your absence, and any materials distributed in the missed class.

Try to stay focused on our class materials.  Avoid working on other courses, checking e-mail or blogging if seated at the computer, side conversations, and any other distracting behaviors.

Thank you so very much!

1.      No food or drink in the classroom.

2.      Cell phones turned off (mine, too!!).

3.      No walking in and out of room while class in session (sad, but true).

4.      No working on other courses, blogging, e-mailing when at the computer (go to first floor of our Bldg. F, Bldg. C or Library).

5.      Assignment read ahead of time (this is college, folks)!

6.      Papers handed in on time.  Lowered grade if late. “F” if not handed in.

Promise me you’ll visit  in the nursing home when the time comes.